The tech elites swore AI was too dangerous for capitalism, right up until Wall Street waved a three-trillion-dollar check. Today we unpack the ultimate corporate sellout alongside killer drones, Claude Fable 5, and lawyers getting wrecked by ChatGPT.
LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Visualizing one billion dollars using grains of rice | YouTube
OpenAI’s official explanation of its evolving nonprofit/for-profit structure
Anthropic’s Responsible Scaling Policy v3.0
Google Cloud’s official TPU page
AP coverage of New York’s synthetic performer disclosure law for AI-generated ads
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